COURSE - When A Friend Asks For Counsel What Do I Do? - $65 includes materials

See course outline below the registration information.

THIS ITEM IS FOR ONE REGISTRATION WITH ONE SET OF BOOKS
If you are looking to register multiple people, please change the quantity to reflect the number, and list all the relevant email addresses in the box above.

Shipping of the required materials is in addition to the registration cost.

Registration will be closed by Wednesday, September 3

When a Friend Asks for Counsel, What Do I Do?
including How to help someone using the Victory Over Failures Plan
Introduction to Level 2 
(A three month - once a week Bible study on Zoom)
Tuesday evenings, beginning September 16, 5:30 – 7:00 PM Pacific Time (8:30 – 10:00 Eastern Time)

This live, on-line class is for those who have already been through Self-Confrontation and want to be better equipped to help others, especially friends or family that come to you for counsel. (BCF will verify prior Self-Confrontation class completion prior to finalizing your registration)

 REGISTRATION:
The fee for the three month - once a week -  class is $65 plus shipping. Included materials are the Handbook for the Ministry of Biblical Discipleship / Counseling and the Victory over Failures Plan Booklet. The Handbook is a 280-page reference of biblical principles and guidance to assist you in helping those who come to you. It is also used in our Level 2 course on biblical counseling/discipleship. You will also need a Self-Confrontation manual which you should already have. (And of course a Bible) The materials will ship shortly after registration and no later than first week in September.

Instructions for the Zoom link will be provided by September 13. 

We will also verify your email address(es) on your registration in order to send the class links.

About the new “When a Friend Asks for Counsel” class:

 Sometimes family or friends can come to us with a problem or concern. The problem they present could be wide-ranging. Maybe it involves a relationship with another person, financial challenges, difficulties with a job, disharmony in their local church, difficulties with children, overall discouragement, or a struggle with a life-dominating pattern of sin in their lives. 

When someone comes to us, we can have a lot of questions about how to handle the situation. For example, we might ask:

• ·      I can listen and pray with the person, but how can I go further to offer hopeful and helpful counsel from God’s Word?
• ·      How can I take the biblical principles I have learned and present them in a clear and logical way to my friend?
• ·      How do I provide the right balance of hope and encouragement but also loving exhortation from the Word where necessary?

 This class will be based on biblical principles drawn from the Self-Confrontation course plus 32  additional biblical principles about how to help others through the difficulties of life.  It will build a foundation so that you can sit down with your friend for what you might call a “life-application Bible study” on how to have victory in the very situation that brings them to you.

 You may remember Matthew 7:5 from the Self-Confrontation course: “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” One of the reasons for taking the log out of our own eye is for the very purpose of being more able to help someone else with their difficulty. It is exciting to know that the Lord can use you in the lives of others, through the powerful, practical Word of God – not as a lecturer, but as a fellow student seeking answers from the only source of instruction for living that is 100% reliable.  

• An overview of the course outline and schedule is provided below:

  Condensed Outline and Schedule for the “When a Friend Asks for Counsel” class:

  9/16    Lesson 1 – Introduction and overview

  9/23    Lesson 2 -  Your responsibility and hope when biblically discipling/counseling your friend

  9/30    Lesson 3 – Preparing to disciple/counsel your friend, and understanding problems biblically

  10/7    Lesson 4 – Preparing your friend to receive counsel: judging self and biblical hope

  10/14 Lesson 5 – Role play demonstration No. 1 and questions/answers

  10/21 Lesson 6 – Introducing the Victory Over Failures Plan and how to use it with your friend

  10/28 Lesson 7 –Description of the Problem and Judging Self

  11/4    Lesson 8 – “Put-offs” and “put-ons”

  11/11 Lesson 9 – Daily Practices and Overcoming Temptations

  11/18 Lesson 10 – Forgiveness/Reconciliation

  Thanksgiving week

  12/2    Lesson 11 – Role play demonstration No. 2 and questions/answers

  12/9    Lesson 12 – How to continue on, and benefits of team discipleship/counseling

  12/16 Lesson 13 – Testimonies and questions/answers